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Thanks a lot David! 13 years old and possibly the most mature guy here! |
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Hahah, that's the first thing I thought too. I love how clean everything looks in this picture though, it's like there's a high end lodge somewhere with holes in the walls 'cause they stole some of the wooden beams to make this platform. |
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Right on Madmax412! 'Preciate your maturity! |
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But then I couldn't whoop you in an armwrestle, Kyle7. I did recently ride Adam Hauck's Mob, and it felt really good, I did things on it that I've never been able to do before, but in the end I want to be able to do all those things on a bike like this too, so what's that really worth? It didn't make me any better, it just proved once and for all that things are in fact easier on a lighter bike. Who knew! If my only goal was to be able to do the most tricks, I could always just go 24, or 20, or go the whole 9 yards and get a scooter! Think how many tailwhips you could do on one of those! But that's not for me, I'd rather take the Nigel Quarless approach and not say I can do something until I can do it on a 40+lb Morphine, or this. You probably won't win any bunnyhop competitions, or be doing any triple tailwhips, but bikes like this have a good ratio of making you significantly better without holding you back too much. |
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How exactly do Mags ruin the bike? 'Cause they're heavy? The bike weighs around 38.5lbs, and even if the weight of the wheels is noticeable it's not like they keep you from doing anything. Seriously, try putting Mags on whatever you're riding now! You'll feel them but you'll notice that doesn't really change anything (except that you might actually get a bit of muscle after a while!). Noticeable doesn't mean significant. As for the tires, they grip well on all kinds of dirt, they don't hold you back on concrete, and best of all they've got decent sidewalls, which is rare on street bikes these days! I don't know who decided that pinch flats were so great, and where I was when they had that vote, but I'm sticking with my tires that have decent sidewalls! And if anything I should raise the price and you know it! |
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It's an old '01 Specialized DH bike isn't it? Like the kind Vaszquez used to ride. |
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The spandy is necessary for Worlds finals, everyone has to run it. I can't imagine guys like Peaty rocking the skinsuit by choice! You'll see guys like Peaty and Kovaric in baggy jerseys with their national colours in practice (which must have been made specifically for Worlds practice), because they don't want to put on the spandex untill they absolutely have to. It's just for finals that everyone suits up. |
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First of all, a bike wheel is 26", or a bit less than 2.5', so even just the vertical in this shot is about 4.5'. Second of all, I just saw this drop yesterday hiking the road up Fromme, and the tranny for that drop is steep, so even crawling off it it's easy to get over 10' of vertical. And the tranny's long, so if you really wanted to go for it you could probably get like 20', but that's probably not too practical because of the g-out at the edge of the road at the bottom, and the fact that you need to be able to stop on the road. |
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Bike-person, Peat was first at the time of the crash (Gee was the last one down, after Sam), so you were right the first time. I have to say though, has everyone forgotten September of 2007 already? Greg Minnaar was on his Worlds winning run, then he crashed in the woods, got back on his bike and recovered a 4th place finish WITH THE BROKEN AND DISLOCATED SHOULDER THAT HE ATTAINED DURING THAT CRASH! Seems like everyone's heads are just too far up Sam's ass to realize that that's just far more impressive than what Sam did on Saturday! Granted Sam was on a pace to win by more than Greg probably would have (although looking at Greg's winning margin at Fort Bill last weekend, maybe not that much more), but he still only finished one spot higher overall after the crash than Greg did last year. Plus Sam also cried because he didn't win, which is not the most humble thing to do. I guess he was hoping to be able to beat Vouilloz' record by winning 10 Worlds' in 10 years. Oh well. Okay, now I've said something both true and controversial in a big group of Sam Hill fans on Pinkbike. If you've ever wondered if there's a limit to the negative props you can have on here, I'd say you're about to find out. |
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Exactly, and I think slammed seats look rediculous anyway (it's so blatantly put out of the way, it looks even more unwanted than if you didn't even have one), so for me both function and form lean towards having the seat at knee height. I also ride trials, and most trials bikes don't have seats at all (or if they do they're only for sitting on while taking a break, which is all a slammed seat is good for anyway but with a lot more unneccesary bulk), which works great, because seats only add weight and take up valuable space to move around over the bike, and you never need to sit down or pinch the seat riding trials (except maybe for Jeff Lenosky's Disorder III section, with all his tailstall barspins, but that was definitely more street than trials). In my opinion, anything in between is just counterproductive. You get the downsides of both the weight of a saddle and the space that it takes up, and you can't even really use it! I like my street seats at knee height and my trials seats nonexistant, and I can't see why anyone would want it any other way. But for the millionth time, the bike has a quick release seat clamp, so feel free to buy the bike and chop the seat tube down to an inch so it can never be raised again! |
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So true. I'm not really in a rush though (especially since it doesn't look like I'll have much money to look forward to), so I might raise the price again in the future. |
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They both suck. I hear that even Rockshox team riders refuse to ride Argyles, they just use Pikes with Argyle badges (but I guess they're working out for this guy, 'cause I noticed he switched to Argyles after this. Also, I've had lots of problems with my Pike 454 Air U-Turn as well, including loss of travel on both ends of the adjustment range and had a hole punched in the bottom of one leg by I think a loose rotor bolt), and it looks like this guy's had the same problem as I had with the Gold Label judging by the black stickerless warrantee lowers: split axle clamp? There's not enough good forks out there for DJ/street! |
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If the fork is 4" then the head angle would be about 68*, so it is pretty slack. |
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"Greg went 125% on that [qualifying] run and everybody else just held a bit back, so he's probably gonna get beat for the final. [...] Let him feel good for the qualifier then just rip on him in the final I reckon" -Peaty Oh yeah? |
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For one thing, machines are always a she. And I ride her, so she's not a gay bike. Maybe bi though, I know she looks good under a girl in a skirt that's too short to be riding a bike in. |
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You're telling me, I never thought I'd have to lower the price from $1500 to move this thing. The fork alone retails for what I'm asking! |
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Over 4,000 American and almost 100,000 civilian deaths in Iraq, still waiting on the punchline. |
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And World Champ! Should've been his last year. Threw off his symetry too ('01 Cup, '03 Champ, '05 Cup, '07 Champ)! |
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That's 34 out of 61! 56% podium rate at World Cups alone, including when he was a junior racing the elites (first podium age 18, 5th at Vail 2000, racing Steve Peat & Nico Vouilloz)! The other 39 World Cups happenned before his time, even before he was a junior, back as early as when he was 11 years old, so you can't say it's out of all 100. I'll never understand why his performance at Worlds '07 was downplayed so much, he didn't even get a mention in Earthed 5! Compare that to a certain rider who shall remain unnamed who blew out a certain corner during a certain would-be Worlds winning run in '04 and got praised for recovering an 11th place finish uninjured. |
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Only one fork dude, and it stays with the bike. |
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Seraph, don't forget 31.8 stem reduced to what looks like 22.2, custom narrow bars turned up, grip tape, lots of steerer spacers and a 24 x 2.2" Holy Roller! |
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You know you're minimalist when your trials bike doesn't have a chain. |
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Hahah, every possible opinion is accounted for here! No idea what "agy" means, but thanks for complimenting me on the rims anyway. |
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Wow. So he took the money, but he wouldn't race to win for the crowds at Sea Otter because that might risk his important rankings. |
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Please stop calling anything made of wood "North Shore"! First of all, in this case it's a wooden street course, so it's not even close. But even if this was even remotely similar to slippery ladder bridges, skinnies and rock faces, it still wouldn't be called "North Shore". It'd be called slippery ladder bridges, skinnies and rock faces! Come up with your own trail name! If you see a trail that looks a bit like A-Line, you don't say "Hey, let's go ride that Whistler over there"! |
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Yeah, me too! They're the only rims I've ever had on this bike, but I ran one on the back of my Chase for a while and I swear it didn't make a difference coming from an EX721! |
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